3.7 Using seed food stores

-In a seedling the foods stores are kept in the 'Cotyletons'
-A seedling requires H2O, O2 and a high temperature
-Food stores are used to promote the growth of the "embryonic root" (radical) and the "embryonic shoot" (plumule)
-Nitrates phosphates and other minerals absorbed through root to promote growth of embryonic plant
-this continues until the plumule breaks through the surface and can start using Photosynthesis